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loyola maroon March 23,1973 VoI.XLIX No. 21 Student leaders critical of program By ANNE WITTE and JOAN QUINTERS Soclml commitment workshop* under etteck commented Pat Beauchamp, senior law student. Rayhawk said the first planning committee meeting for the workshops was mishandled. "Actually, nobody at the meeting knew exactly why he was there. The problem of Loyola's social commitment to the city was discussed. Everyone there agreed there is a problem; but nobody could agree on what the problem is," he said. However, the Rev. David Boileau, Director ot the Institute of Human Relations, said the planning committee was already working with three "givens" that couldn't be ignored; the Loyola goals statement, the Bishop's Synod statement and the New Orleans Goals to Grow statement. From the goals of social commitment Dissatisfied student leaders have criticized the planning and organization of the Social Commitment Workshops being held this weekend- to determine Loyola's commitment to the New Orleans community. Complaints have ranged from mismanagement to lack of student input and ambiguity of the program itself. "I've got nothing against the program...but I don't know exactly what it is the program expects to accomplish," said Bob Rayhawk, SGA president and one of the students who served on the planning committee for the workshops. "The whole thing is too limited in scope and did not begin with a thorough analysis of the whole student situation," already outlined in these documents, a method needs to be devised on how to get Loyola involved with these goals and how to produce the desired effect, he said. Besides the ambiguities in the program, students also voiced concern over the seeming lack of student input into designing a plan billed as a cooperative university commitment. "Students are more like token support to the entire operation. It's being billed as a cooperative university effort for social commitment, but I don't see where the student's are cooperating in any form proportionally equal to the part taken by faculty members and the administration," said Aly Colon, editor of Red Beans and Rice. "Students are being railroaded into this," he continued. At the second meeting of the planning committee, Fr. Boileau "miraculously" produced a tentative schedule for the workshops, according to several of the dissatisfied students. "There was hardly any discussion. The whole program was already laid out for us," Rayhawk complained. "Pat O'Keefe (freshman law student) objected for awhile, but Fr. Blileau immediately put him down and simply turned to the next question," Rayhawk said. Pat O'Keefe maintained that students had as much say in drawing up the program as anyone else on the planning committee. "The first meeting was devoted to obtaining topics for discussion at the workshops. Fr. Boileau asked me to take Field House third on list of priorities by BRIAN KENSEL This is the fourth in a series examining Loyola 's sports facilities. The administration of Loyola has placed the construction of two facilities before plans for a new Field House, according to Fr. James C. Carter S.J., university provost. 'There are two front runners," said Fr. Carter. "We need a Fine Arts and Communications building, a bigger library, and then a Field House." The provost, in conjuction with the university president and board of directors, makes the decisions on such capital improvements on campus. Fr. Carter added that it is possible that a larger library will be unnecessary. If Loyola relies heavily on microfilm in the future, the present facility would be sufficiently large, as the microfilm would require much less space than books, said Fr. Carter. The greatest difficulty in planning a new Field House is the financing, said Fr. Carter. It is a lack of money that forces priorities to be set. "If we had the money for all three, we could find the room," he added. "Wouldt Lose Anything" The existing Field House was constructed in 1954 at a cost of approximately $500,000. For its 19 years of use, this facility has cost roughly $26,000 per year, plus annual maintenance. "If we tore it down today we would not lose anything," said Fr. Carter, "the building has amortized (paid for) itself already. Therefore, we should be able to spend some money to keep it up.'f Other university officials see shortcomings in Fr. Carter's suggestions. Jim Mains, director of intramurals, said "As a professional, it's hard for me to justify pumping money into the renovation of this facility (the Field House). This building is simply outdated." Carter agrees to the inadequacy of the present athletic facilities, but says that since money is not available for ail of the improvements needed on campus, priorities must be made. As an entirely new building cannot be presently afforded, he feels money channeled into the restoration of the Field House would help the situation. "I do feel a desperate need for athletic facilities here," Fr. Carter said. Other Facilities Fr. Carter would also like to see money invested in other athletic facilities such as tennis courts and a swimming pool. "Probably the best use of the money we have is to build outdoor facilities," he said. An outdoor swimming pool would be better suited to Loyola's needs, according to Fr. Carter, than would an indoor facility. "You will have some people who swim 30 or 40 laps a day for exercise, but most students will just get wet and want to sit on the side in the sun." he explained. Fr. Carter said he sees no reason "why we couldnt put tennis courts on the roof of Danna Center." He also mentioned the possibility of tennis courts replacing the parking lot alongside the back quadrangle. In this case, the area in front of the Field House facing on Freret St. would become a parking lot to replaci the lost spaces. Opposition Vincent P. Knipfing, dean of studeni affairs, maintains that construction oi athletic facilities in the quadrangle between the dormitories" could seriously affect the quality of life in the residence halls." Noise from those students using the facilities could disturb" the residents, contends Knipfing. "Also there are so few grass areas on campus, I'd like to see the quad all covered with grass for playing purposes," added Knipfing. "Personally, I'm pretty much opposed to putting anything permanent in the quad." This opposition includes opposition to tennis courts or a pool. Other campus sources oppose outdoor facilities on the basis of theii maintenance and supervision costs. Maintenance for an outdoor pool, for example, is estimated to be $10,000 annually, as compared with an approximate maintenance cost of $2,000 per year for an indoor facility. Added security measures would have to be taken in the case of an outdoor pool to prevent small children from nearly schools from falling into the pool. Loyola officials have considered the roof of Danna Center as a possible location for tennis courts. Results show that the air ducts serving the building would have to be totally rerouted, and the roof would require extra structural support to accomodate the weight of tennis courts. Unless a revision of priorities is forthcoming, Loyola will have to continue using the present athletic facilities for several years. Next week: how does the university population feel about athletic facilities and the university's priorities? J Fine Arts building and library must be built before FH is improved continued on p. 5 WLDC TV hits the air Monday p. 3 Parents to receive freshman grades p. 5 Features: Direction '73, Dracula p. 8-9 Reviews: Fellini actor enrolled in LUp. 11

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loyola maroon March 23,1973 VoI.XLIX No. 21 Student leaders critical of program By ANNE WITTE and JOAN QUINTERS Soclml commitment workshop* under etteck commented Pat Beauchamp, senior law student. Rayhawk said the first planning committee meeting for the workshops was mishandled. "Actually, nobody at the meeting knew exactly why he was there. The problem of Loyola's social commitment to the city was discussed. Everyone there agreed there is a problem; but nobody could agree on what the problem is," he said. However, the Rev. David Boileau, Director ot the Institute of Human Relations, said the planning committee was already working with three "givens" that couldn't be ignored; the Loyola goals statement, the Bishop's Synod statement and the New Orleans Goals to Grow statement. From the goals of social commitment Dissatisfied student leaders have criticized the planning and organization of the Social Commitment Workshops being held this weekend- to determine Loyola's commitment to the New Orleans community. Complaints have ranged from mismanagement to lack of student input and ambiguity of the program itself. "I've got nothing against the program...but I don't know exactly what it is the program expects to accomplish," said Bob Rayhawk, SGA president and one of the students who served on the planning committee for the workshops. "The whole thing is too limited in scope and did not begin with a thorough analysis of the whole student situation," already outlined in these documents, a method needs to be devised on how to get Loyola involved with these goals and how to produce the desired effect, he said. Besides the ambiguities in the program, students also voiced concern over the seeming lack of student input into designing a plan billed as a cooperative university commitment. "Students are more like token support to the entire operation. It's being billed as a cooperative university effort for social commitment, but I don't see where the student's are cooperating in any form proportionally equal to the part taken by faculty members and the administration," said Aly Colon, editor of Red Beans and Rice. "Students are being railroaded into this," he continued. At the second meeting of the planning committee, Fr. Boileau "miraculously" produced a tentative schedule for the workshops, according to several of the dissatisfied students. "There was hardly any discussion. The whole program was already laid out for us," Rayhawk complained. "Pat O'Keefe (freshman law student) objected for awhile, but Fr. Blileau immediately put him down and simply turned to the next question," Rayhawk said. Pat O'Keefe maintained that students had as much say in drawing up the program as anyone else on the planning committee. "The first meeting was devoted to obtaining topics for discussion at the workshops. Fr. Boileau asked me to take Field House third on list of priorities by BRIAN KENSEL This is the fourth in a series examining Loyola 's sports facilities. The administration of Loyola has placed the construction of two facilities before plans for a new Field House, according to Fr. James C. Carter S.J., university provost. 'There are two front runners," said Fr. Carter. "We need a Fine Arts and Communications building, a bigger library, and then a Field House." The provost, in conjuction with the university president and board of directors, makes the decisions on such capital improvements on campus. Fr. Carter added that it is possible that a larger library will be unnecessary. If Loyola relies heavily on microfilm in the future, the present facility would be sufficiently large, as the microfilm would require much less space than books, said Fr. Carter. The greatest difficulty in planning a new Field House is the financing, said Fr. Carter. It is a lack of money that forces priorities to be set. "If we had the money for all three, we could find the room," he added. "Wouldt Lose Anything" The existing Field House was constructed in 1954 at a cost of approximately $500,000. For its 19 years of use, this facility has cost roughly $26,000 per year, plus annual maintenance. "If we tore it down today we would not lose anything," said Fr. Carter, "the building has amortized (paid for) itself already. Therefore, we should be able to spend some money to keep it up.'f Other university officials see shortcomings in Fr. Carter's suggestions. Jim Mains, director of intramurals, said "As a professional, it's hard for me to justify pumping money into the renovation of this facility (the Field House). This building is simply outdated." Carter agrees to the inadequacy of the present athletic facilities, but says that since money is not available for ail of the improvements needed on campus, priorities must be made. As an entirely new building cannot be presently afforded, he feels money channeled into the restoration of the Field House would help the situation. "I do feel a desperate need for athletic facilities here," Fr. Carter said. Other Facilities Fr. Carter would also like to see money invested in other athletic facilities such as tennis courts and a swimming pool. "Probably the best use of the money we have is to build outdoor facilities," he said. An outdoor swimming pool would be better suited to Loyola's needs, according to Fr. Carter, than would an indoor facility. "You will have some people who swim 30 or 40 laps a day for exercise, but most students will just get wet and want to sit on the side in the sun." he explained. Fr. Carter said he sees no reason "why we couldnt put tennis courts on the roof of Danna Center." He also mentioned the possibility of tennis courts replacing the parking lot alongside the back quadrangle. In this case, the area in front of the Field House facing on Freret St. would become a parking lot to replaci the lost spaces. Opposition Vincent P. Knipfing, dean of studeni affairs, maintains that construction oi athletic facilities in the quadrangle between the dormitories" could seriously affect the quality of life in the residence halls." Noise from those students using the facilities could disturb" the residents, contends Knipfing. "Also there are so few grass areas on campus, I'd like to see the quad all covered with grass for playing purposes," added Knipfing. "Personally, I'm pretty much opposed to putting anything permanent in the quad." This opposition includes opposition to tennis courts or a pool. Other campus sources oppose outdoor facilities on the basis of theii maintenance and supervision costs. Maintenance for an outdoor pool, for example, is estimated to be $10,000 annually, as compared with an approximate maintenance cost of $2,000 per year for an indoor facility. Added security measures would have to be taken in the case of an outdoor pool to prevent small children from nearly schools from falling into the pool. Loyola officials have considered the roof of Danna Center as a possible location for tennis courts. Results show that the air ducts serving the building would have to be totally rerouted, and the roof would require extra structural support to accomodate the weight of tennis courts. Unless a revision of priorities is forthcoming, Loyola will have to continue using the present athletic facilities for several years. Next week: how does the university population feel about athletic facilities and the university's priorities? J Fine Arts building and library must be built before FH is improved continued on p. 5 WLDC TV hits the air Monday p. 3 Parents to receive freshman grades p. 5 Features: Direction '73, Dracula p. 8-9 Reviews: Fellini actor enrolled in LUp. 11